Tests

    • 2010 YETI DJ Premier Gander

    • November 24th, 2009 @ 11:53 AM | 28

    • It’s no secret that Jared Graves annihilated (well most of the time) the opposition at this year’s world cup four-cross rounds. He simply out gated and outclassed everyone. Graves has looked like the man to beat for a couple of …

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    • Bike Test: CORSAIR CROWN

    • October 6th, 2009 @ 10:05 AM | 2

    • Bike Test: CORSAIR CROWN
      It’s only a few years since Pablo Montoya and his colleague appeared at that most intimidating of mountainbike events, Eurobike. Even then their products, early prototypes, came …

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    • Bike Test: Mythic Banshee Ledgend

    • September 22nd, 2009 @ 11:17 AM | 0

    • Keith Scott has taken over at Banshee as head engineer and had almost the opposite effect when a link asking for people’s comments on a new design he’d worked on …

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    • Bike Test: KTM Tribute

    • September 22nd, 2009 @ 8:42 AM | 0

    • Bike Test: KTM Tribute

      If paying for a name comes at a price with many brands, particularly US ones, take a moment to digest their wafer thin background relative to what …

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    • Bike Test: K-9 The Full Package

    • September 22nd, 2009 @ 8:21 AM | 2

    • Bike Test: K-9 The Full Package
      Of the production bikes that have been featured recently only the South African Morewood Makulu and UK made Empire really stand out, they came almost …

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    • Bike Test: Specialised Big Hit

    • September 21st, 2009 @ 2:45 PM | 1

    • WITH MOST PRODUCTION DOWNHILL BIKES WEIGHING IN ON AVERAGE AT AROUND FOUR GRAND, IS THERE ANY PLACE FOR AN ENTRY LEVEL £1700 COMPLETE BUILD? AND DOES SPECIALIZED’S NEW BIG HIT …

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    • BIKE TEST: INTENSE M6…

    • September 21st, 2009 @ 12:20 PM | 0

    • BIKE TEST: INTENSE M6…

      Intense. The company, the name and the bikes have a passionate and loyal band of followers. Worldwide the origins of such fervent bike love stems from such …

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    • Bike Test: The Cannondale Rush

    • September 21st, 2009 @ 8:55 AM | 4

    • Bike Test: The Cannondale Rush
      It is possibly by mistake that a bike of such badness has emerged out of the “marathon bike” category stamped on it so definitively by Cannondale, …

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    • Bike Test: RAGE DH

    • September 21st, 2009 @ 8:24 AM | 2

    • Bike Test: RAGE DH
      Jones might be completely wrong about the look of this bike. You may think it has a raw industrial appeal that far surpasses the fickle decorations of …

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    • Bike Test: DIRTY BUT CLEAN

    • September 20th, 2009 @ 3:57 PM | 0

    • Words Steve Jones
      Photos Victor Lucas
      This is a typical piece of French artistry, the likes of which we have not seen since the heady days of Sunn. Who else could make …

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    • Bike Test: THE WHYTE E120

    • September 20th, 2009 @ 2:29 PM | 0

    • THE WHYTE E120
      This bike teeters on the very edge of the kind of bikes we have in this magazine. Its inclusion is hardly about its looks (but then who looks at a bike when their riding?), but about carrying …

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    • Fly on the Wall: BIKE TEST

    • September 20th, 2009 @ 1:22 PM | 0

    • For a while it was the free thinkers who ruled. Niche brands roamed the blistered, wrinkled and ripped skin of the earth’s surface on brawny yet sophisticated creations, always unique and very much the ones to hang out with. Things …

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    • Bike Test: 2STAGE ELITE9

    • August 23rd, 2009 @ 10:47 AM | 0

    • Bike Test: 2STAGE ELITE9

      It’s not often that we get the chance to ride a bike from New Zealand, so when the opportunity arose we jumped at the chance. 2Stage is …

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    • Gee Atherton’s Commencal Supreme DH

    • January 21st, 2009 @ 2:16 PM | 0

    • A COMPARISON BETWEEN
      GEE ATHERTON’S PRO BIKE
      AND THE PRODUCTION MODEL
      Words Steve Jones Photos Victor Lucas
      The Commencal Supreme DH bike ridden by Gee,
      Dan and Rachel Atherton is the most successful
      race bike of the 2008 downhill season. Is it?
      Well of course it is. …

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    • Fox forks, Talas, Float and Van

    • January 20th, 2009 @ 8:44 AM | 1

    • Why Doesn’t Tarzan Have A Beard?
      Fox 36 Forks 2009 by Steve Jones.
      Here we bloody go again. Seems like only yesterday I was trying to make a meal out
      of a can of oil and washers and air from this company. And …

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    • Pedal to the metal

    • January 15th, 2009 @ 10:36 AM | 0

    • Here’s three sets of pedals the Dirt crew have been hammering

      Superstar Mag Lite CNC Pedals

      It was only when I picked these up off Ed H’s
      desk that I realised they were pretty special
      and a hell of a …

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    • GT DHi

    • March 28th, 2007 @ 8:19 AM | 0

    • >THE TECH

      RTS, LTS (in all it‘s various guises), LOBO…OK, so each of these bikes may have later turned out to have a few flaws, but let’s not forget that at their time of release …

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    • Marin Quake AL7

    • March 27th, 2007 @ 4:14 PM | 0

    • >THE TECH

      For years Marin cut themselves a furrow in the single pivot field, but over the past few years they’ve sneaked in a few extra pivots. I say ‘sneaked’ because at first from …

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    • Turner RFX

    • March 27th, 2007 @ 4:00 PM | 0

    • >THE TECH

      Before you all start thinking we really have finally gone completely stark raving mad, we do realise that the bike you see before you does in fact say ’Six Pack’ on it, …

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    • Group Test – Hardtails 2

    • March 27th, 2007 @ 3:10 PM | 0

    • We’ve probably already harped on enough about how you shouldn’t ever forget the humble hardtail, and all their qualities, so this time we’ll keep it short.

      Trails, 4X, street… which ever one you pick, your chosen steed is unlikely to …

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    • Group Test – Hardtails

    • March 26th, 2007 @ 2:12 PM | 0

    • I think I’ve died and gone to heaven, I’ve got hardtails coming out of my ears! It’s like I said before, there’s a whole heap of hardtails out there that deserve a mention, but here’s a quick look at the …

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    • Yeti 303

    • March 26th, 2007 @ 8:51 AM | 0

    • In the world of downhill I can only think of a few bikes that are both ‘super’ and ‘exclusive’ (and unavailable) at the same time – the Honda, Nicolai, B1 and MSC …

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